Friday, 26 September 2014

Hello everyone and welcome. This is Astrid here with my final post for the Artistic Stamper.
After long consideration I have decided that after two and a half years with this wonderful team, it is time for me to move on.

Life makes many demands on us and my life is going to take me in different directions....

I have thoroughly enjoyed being part of this fantastic team and work with Jennie's fabulous stamps. She is the most generous and kind leader any design team could want and I want to say a HUGE BIG THANK YOU to her!!!!

For my final post I am going to do a review of some of the many projects I have created, starting with the first one in 2012. I decided to show you 12 projects in all spanning the many months on the team.

My very first project, a wall hanging

An altered box

One of the many cards

Size 10 tag

Accordion fold mini book

Shabby chic hanger

Mixed media journal page

An altered book

Christmas tag booklet

Mixed media card

Bookmark

and one of my final projects, an Artist Trading Block

I would like to thank all my wonderful teamies old and new, it has been great to work together with you and finally, last but not least, I want to thank you lovely visitors for all your support and wonderful comments, - you are the best!!!!

Wednesday, 24 September 2014

Today I am sharing with you 'a Wall hanging Project' which I have created with Neil Walker designed 'large heart stamp'.

Let me share with you how I have created this.

I applied gesso on to the most of the part of brown packaging piece. When it dried completely, I stamped text with Artistic stamper Calligraphy Mat 4. Also added some texture with Mini sequin background stamp to create a background.

Sunday, 21 September 2014

Question : What do you do if you want to test the ATB technique, AND use these awesome new stamps from the Artistic Stamper ?Answer : very easy !

You cut 6 equal pieces in a cardboard (mine are 15x15 cm) and adjust them together to make a dice :

you cover the edges with newspaper sheets :

add gesso randomly :

and distress them with walnut stain :

When the dice is done, I cut 2 scrapbooking sheets into 4 and distressed all backs and edges of 6 from them :

Then I stamped this paper (that will be on the top of the block) here and there with Florence's Flowers stamp :

On the 4 other sheets I stamped a single big one of some other Debbie Cotton stamps :

and here is my block :

To decorate the top of the block, I added some little things like cogs, a fridge lamp, a car key and key holder, a dried rose, and....

this flower I am very proud of, though it was very easy to make : 5 circles cut in an old pair of jeans, pinched with just a stitch, then gathered with a few stitches, ribbon, lace and a big wooden button...

Don't forget that every month we have a challenge and this month it is

1. I used alcohol ink and blending solution to make a pale background on glossy card, then stamped the Grecian ladies & the floral background with Watering Can archival ink.

2. I cut out 3 x 1 inch squares of the ladies heads, then 3 x 1 inch squares from the floral background. I placed them back to back between 2 pieces of memory glass, then inserted them in the memory frames.